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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson on

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Drive. I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and it's a Thursday. We're digging out here in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: and uh, well, Steelers having their first quote unquote official

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Speaker 1: practice for the Bengals game. They had to release an

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Speaker 1: injury report today. Ben Roethlisberger did not practice today. That's uh,

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Speaker 1: Today's Thursday's a Wednesday. That's how you need to look

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Speaker 1: at this. If you're if you're wondering why why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger practice day? Well, Thursday's a Wednesday. He's in

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Speaker 1: practice probably Friday. He'll practice Friday and Saturday. They got

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Speaker 1: him any extra day of rest. I'm assuming the offensive

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Speaker 1: line was all off yesterday. Yeah, right, but the other

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Speaker 1: guys who did not that, well, Joe Hayden was a

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Speaker 1: to coussion protocol. Well, I don't know if he's officially

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Speaker 1: testing for that on Saturdays, so that yeah, but if

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Speaker 1: he's if he's practiced. He practiced yesterday as well. We

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Speaker 1: don't know that for sure on the other than the

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Speaker 1: fact that there were pictures of him practicing. So move

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Speaker 1: along as you want. Yeah, but James Conner did not

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Speaker 1: practice today because of the quad injury, Kevin Dotson did

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Speaker 1: not practice today because of the shoulder issue, and Sean

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Speaker 1: Davis is dealing with an illness. But again, remember this

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Speaker 1: is a Wednesday. Is a Wednesday when in doubt, you

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Speaker 1: don't play them on a Wednesday. Um, yeah, Dotson is

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Speaker 1: obviously a concern. You know, there was some optimism around that,

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Speaker 1: but uh, this isn't optimistic. Obviously it would have been

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Speaker 1: great to be like, oh hey, practicing full great again,

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Speaker 1: But this is not a game against the Bengals, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily the I don't I'd rest both those guys if

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Speaker 1: if it's questions, I mean, if if it's just if

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Speaker 1: it's a situation where well we could play them, but

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Speaker 1: they might you know, extend the injury or something like that. See, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're coming at us. So if if that's a situation

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Speaker 1: because Monday night or quite frankly, the Bengals, Um, they

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Speaker 1: don't rush to pass her all that. Well, no, Geno

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Speaker 1: Atkins isn't play. Atkins is not like they are. This

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Speaker 1: is not laps gone right. I mean they their front seven,

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Speaker 1: well they're d line looked okay, you know on paper

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Speaker 1: early in the year with their moves. Now it's down

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Speaker 1: to not much. I mean it's okay. I guess it's

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Speaker 1: still the strength of their defense. They have a couple

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Speaker 1: of good defensive backs as well. But they have fifteen

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Speaker 1: sacks this year as a team. Yeah, t J. Watt

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Speaker 1: has twelve. They have fifteen is a team? Uh read today?

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Speaker 1: And I remember saying this the first time Cincinnati came

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Speaker 1: that they played where they guess they came to town.

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Speaker 1: If you add up sacks and turnovers, the Steelers are

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Speaker 1: number one in the league. Then they still are. And

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Speaker 1: since he is number thirties and it's their total um

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Speaker 1: on that is, I believe I want to say something

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Speaker 1: like nineteen, they have like nineteen. I actually have that

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Speaker 1: it to me earlier in the week. Um, yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: I mean they're they're they're dead last. And the team

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Speaker 1: like twelve away from like it's not even close. Here's

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Speaker 1: the numbers here. The Steelers are averaging a league high

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Speaker 1: five point four sacks plus takeaways per game. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: takeaways per game. That's a huge discrepancy, I mean in

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Speaker 1: terms of huge, big monsters plays generated on defense. And oh,

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Speaker 1: thirty in terms of how many sacks they allow verse

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Speaker 1: exactly exactly. Obviously it's the biggest you can create right

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Speaker 1: And they used to throw a ball the ball Ton

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Speaker 1: They've scored fifty points in their last five games without Burrow.

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Speaker 1: They had Burrow for out half with you. But this

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Speaker 1: streak started against the Steelers and they played they played

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Speaker 1: but but they had nine. I think they had nine

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Speaker 1: they had nine. They lost twenty to nine. I think

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Speaker 1: they've scored and this is basically in three and a

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Speaker 1: and one of those touchdowns was on a kickoff return.

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Speaker 1: Steelers defense. I feel very confident saying that. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if if this Stealers started all their backups,

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Speaker 1: a feather. Here's what they do about this. Offensively total

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Speaker 1: That was that's their high water mark. They moved the

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Speaker 1: ball a little, They moved the ball a little, they

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Speaker 1: still scored seven points. Really bad. Real quick. Back to

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Speaker 1: the the sack differential. The thirty first best team the

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Speaker 1: zack different They've been sacked nineteen more times and they've

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Speaker 1: created Well, the Bengals are by thirty one. You're like,

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Speaker 1: they're a distant thirty two, right, they have no pass

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Speaker 1: rush rush. The linebackers are are bad. The linebackers are bad.

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Speaker 1: They've been bad for five years. They give up it's

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Speaker 1: four point seven yards per carry to opposing running backs.

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Speaker 1: Now I know people look at this will. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: their their running backs are actually averaging three point nine yards. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: out the kneel kneel downs essentially there's twenty there's twenty

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Speaker 1: they should even count that. I mean, that definitely excused

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Speaker 1: their three point seven yards of carry is different than say,

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Speaker 1: They don't have any kneel downs in there. That's what

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Speaker 1: they're averaging, right, And there's also stretches late in games

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Speaker 1: little different. It's a little different. And again twenty one

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Speaker 1: Steelers cap. But they don't have a home run hitter

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Speaker 1: not believers in yards per carry. I'm starting to kind

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Speaker 1: actually second to last with seventeen runs of time, but

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, right, So the Bengals running game also, it's

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Speaker 1: worse than the Steelers running game. Oh and by the way,

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Speaker 1: The Steelers defense, I don't know. I'm not gonna say

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Speaker 1: we gotta be really careful against this guy or this

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Speaker 1: Because if we put it's not a bad thing. If

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Speaker 1: call an audible for all of a sudden, you're losing

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Speaker 1: ten nothing, get out there and do what you do best.

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Speaker 1: That would be shocking. I just don't see that. This

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Speaker 1: look back at the first time that these two teams met.

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger through three three ours and four touchdowns. H Deonte

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. D Welcome back, Um Dale Lolly here

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Speaker 1: He's a little thin six nine, more of the receiving type.

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Speaker 1: But heard somebody saying he's like Gronk and Randy Moss

424
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: mixed together, which I hate the Hall of Fame here.

425
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 1: If he's Griff, he's Gronk, Randy Moss mixed together. He

426
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: should be the first overall pick. Yes, like I hate

427
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 1: that's why my pet peeves Like, So, who's this back?

428
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: Remind you Jim Brown? And he's a cross between Jim

429
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: Brown and Barry Sanders, Jim Brown and Superman. We're gonna

430
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: take him. We hope you get him out of the

431
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 1: top ten. But he's long and lean. Yeah, he scores sounds.

432
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Speaker 1: Number eight Jalen Waddell, the wide receiver at of Alabama.

433
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: He's more of a you know, five te eight two,

434
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: more of a jitterbug type. Fast, yeah, really fast. Another

435
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: he got hurt. He hasn't played his season's over in

436
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: the season, but he twenty two point three yards per

437
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: catching four games. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. Um. Number

438
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: nine he has Jeremiah o Wosue Coamoa, inside linebacker out

439
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 1: of Netard Dame UH six two to twenty. Um. He

440
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: reminds me more of a Durwin James than a Bush

441
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: or a Rowan, you know what I mean, that line

442
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 1: between safety and very like Isaiah Simmons almost he'll be

443
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: that guy, you know that to combine this year that

444
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,640
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah right, And where are we gonna play him?

445
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 1: I mean that's a bit of a challenge for people, though,

446
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: you know it does he if he runs a four

447
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: sub four five, oh, we could put him at safety.

448
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 1: If he's you know, he's four or five to four

449
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 1: six Oh, hell, he's a linebacker and every down guy.

450
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean it's a good situation. Uh. Number ten,

451
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: this guy is just bolted up mels Bore. He's not

452
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,479
Speaker 1: rated before and his in his rankings. Davian Nixon, the

453
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: defensive tackle out of Iowa. I just know the name.

454
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I will say, I like, I like what

455
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: Mel does, and I've been getting his books since I

456
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 1: was six years old. But I do know a Mel

457
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: trade is he likes to be first on these guys,

458
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: so when it comes to draft time, he can be

459
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: Like remember back in December, I was the first one

460
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: to tell you about this guy. I don't know much

461
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: about him. You say his defensive tackle. Yeah, through six three,

462
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: three oh five, he's got five and a half sacks,

463
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: thirteen tackles for a loss. I mean he kind of

464
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: you know. The one thing I will say is a

465
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: lot of these top twenty five thirty two lists very

466
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: devoided defensive tackles this year. Yeah, and that will get you.

467
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: That will move you up the board quickly if you're

468
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: the best. I mean, some teams that absolutely need it.

469
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: And it's it's gonna be interesting to this year. I

470
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: believe with with you know, the opt outs, like I

471
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: think you opt towards the guy you have played recent

472
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 1: and Kevin Colbert said that, you know when when he

473
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: was asked about that before, like the guys who have

474
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: more recent tape. I mean you have to you have

475
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: to like balance that against these guys that didn't play.

476
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Senior Bowls. Some of those opt out

477
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: guys are playing, so which will see them play in

478
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: football before you draft them. Eleven is cornerback Patrick's retained

479
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: the second out of Alabama six two two oh three

480
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: UM total package. I mean man cover guy. Dad was

481
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: a first right right right, he's kind of I bet

482
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: he goes earlier than that. Just first corner off the

483
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: board usually doesn't last that long. And then there's a

484
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 1: kid out of Virginia Tacto Farley UH. Number twelve is

485
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: Jellene Phillips, a defensive end out of Miami UH six

486
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: five to sixty five. He was not ranked before. I

487
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: say he's also skyrocketed up boards too, had a really

488
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,640
Speaker 1: good year because the defensive end that one was talking

489
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: about in Miami was Rousso and he opted out. He's

490
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: like a six seven condor and this guy stepped up

491
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: big time in his place. Uh Farley, Caleb Farley, who

492
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: you just mentioned. He's the number thirteen. Another again, another

493
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: big corner six to two oh seven. I mean, these

494
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: are the kind of guys you want out there to

495
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: deal with, deal with exactly, press band corner, long arms.

496
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: Like if you saw a list before the call of

497
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: the season kicked in and before the opt outs, a

498
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: lot of them had him as like a top four

499
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: or five problem. He was he there with you know,

500
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: Penny Sewell and those guys. Yeah, uh number fourteen, Zack Wilson,

501
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,239
Speaker 1: the quarterback at a B y Uh yeah, yeah, I'll

502
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: bet he goes way higher than that. He couldn't. I

503
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: questioned some of the competition that he's they haven't played anybody, anybody, right. Um.

504
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: He's very twitchy, but there's tall. It's kind of like

505
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: the Jim Brown conversation, but he's in the Mahomes mold.

506
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: You know, he's a little bit shorter. He's a very twitchy,

507
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: balanced athlete. That makes things look easy, you know, um,

508
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: and everyone's looking for that, of course, you know. But

509
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: he's also a true junior, which I mean you could

510
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: get some some bonus years out of that. Yeah, I

511
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Uh, number fifteen, this is a guy

512
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: that's kind of risen up the boards over the course

513
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: of the season. That would be Mac Jones, the quarterback

514
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: out of Alabama. And you look at him and you go, Okay,

515
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: is he any good or is it just the fact

516
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: that he's got two top time receivers that he's throwing

517
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: too in an offensive line that you know, probably every

518
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: guy off that offensive line is going to be drafted,

519
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: and the star running back and right and he was

520
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: not on early list, you know. So I think he's

521
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: more This sounds horrible, but he's more mccaren than he

522
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: is to you know, in terms of ability. But there's

523
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: a lot of talk that he's a late first I mean,

524
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: I've seen him mocked to the Steelers at thirty. I've

525
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: seen him mocked to the Saints that at the end

526
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: of the first round set him down for a year.

527
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's a real high ceiling though. Yeah,

528
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think the ceiling is is

529
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: usually ranked well, and he's number sixteen, uh six, you

530
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: know he's he's a really tough evol though again much

531
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: the same way that when you're looking at the situation

532
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: with the b y U kid, you get a look

533
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: at the competition. Carson Wentz is old school, and Carson

534
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: Wentz hasn't helped him it all is I wouldn't, now,

535
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, and this kid, well, that conference

536
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: or his school opted out, it wasn't his choice. They

537
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: came back, played one game. I guess he didn't play great,

538
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,719
Speaker 1: he wasn't horrible. So he's one game of new tape.

539
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: And last year he didn't throw a pick. He had

540
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: like a thirty one to nothing in t the interception ratio.

541
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: And and the guy i've heard him compared to, and

542
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: I haven't watched a lot of him is McNair. Like

543
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: he's a really strong he's six, so he's a bigger dude,

544
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: physical guy. Seventeen career starts, none against a division one.

545
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: I would think he's not a week one starter though.

546
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: That's the thing I mean, it's that's gonna be a

547
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: long term you know, there's a projection there that that.

548
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,719
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna take time right because I mean

549
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: he's you don't have a lot to go off of

550
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: right now. Um, the second offensive lineman off the boarder.

551
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: We haven't seen a lot of big bodied lineman. I

552
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: know Steeler fans are gonna be looking at that rashands

553
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: to pick up in the Steeler neighborhood. But it's not

554
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: The number two guy doesn't jump off of the ward.

555
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: And that's for Shawn Slater from mel at the guard

556
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: at the Northwestern He actually I'm wrong. He is clearly

557
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: the number two, but he's a guard. But yeah, what's

558
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: interesting about him is he's short. He's a tackle at

559
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: Northwestern that opted out and he killed. He's the only

560
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: one to shutdown Chase Young last year. He's been really

561
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: really good at tackle, but most look at him in

562
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: short arms. He's only six three and a half maybe

563
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: six four, heard to even super smart Northwestern guy. Maybe

564
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: he's a center, maybe he's a guard. But a lot

565
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: of those guys end up playing tackle because they're better

566
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: than the tackle you had anyway, you know what I mean.

567
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: You know, like they kind of said that about Jonah

568
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: Williams a little bit. Yeah, Um, Number eighteen. Another offensive

569
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: tackle here. That would be Christian Dery Saw out of

570
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. Um. Now he's got your classic tackle size

571
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: three six three fifteen. He's been rising up boards quickly

572
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: to this year. Has helped rom again Junior j big,

573
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: multiple piece of clay. I mean, I bet he could

574
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: be a Steeler. Yeah, I think that could be something

575
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: they could be looking for. Number nineteen, another tackle, This

576
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: guy the uh and he's actually dropped on Males board.

577
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: This would be Samue will cause Me out of Texas. Yeah,

578
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: six seven, three ten. He's almost a He's been a

579
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: household name for a long time. I mean he's been

580
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: on all the lists. He's been really good. Um. I

581
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: don't know a ton about him in terms of except

582
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: for length and height. He has all those those traits.

583
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: I don't think he's an exceptional athlete, but he's more

584
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: of a pass blocker than them aller. But he's a

585
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: first round tack How about this. If he's drafted in

586
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: the first round, he would be the first first round

587
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: player out of Texas since Vince Young forever. Alright, then

588
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: Young played a long time ago, A long time ago.

589
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: That was in two thousand six. Dude, that's Texas. We

590
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: offered him. We offered Vince Young a scholarship was a

591
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: pit that was a long time ago. Uh Gruso who

592
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: you talked about before, Gregory Russo the defensive end and

593
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: of Miami six seven to fifty three long you know

594
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: that's he's That's exactly what the Bengals. I've always had

595
00:30:55,520 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: those guys. You know that's a that's a loss here. Yeah,

596
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: it out. But what's interesting? I mean, like, I don't

597
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: know if we take Mel's board with a grain of salt,

598
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: but he would have been fifth or six on Mel's board,

599
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: saying with that corner because he didn't play, you know,

600
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: and they have to go backwards. You're not gonna go

601
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: up right. Other guys have you know done? Things have

602
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: surpassed you. Uh number twenty one, he has a Trayvon

603
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: Murray safety at a TCU. Good safeties. I'll tell you what, though,

604
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: I would have a troupe. I would have a problem

605
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: taking a secondary player out of the Big twelve twelve

606
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: just as a rule of thumb. I mean, I know

607
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: he's a du it all plays Iran Blizzers, all that stuff,

608
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: But that's what you're saying. Yeah, I mean, that's you

609
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: hate to say that that's a strike against you, but

610
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: it's a strike against you in my book. It's a

611
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: style of football you're not going to see right, next level, Yeah,

612
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. Number twenty two Darien Kendrick, the cornerback

613
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: at a Clemson. He's been yeah. Um. Number twenty three

614
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: Elijah More, wide receiver out of Old Miss. Now we've

615
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: seen the Old Miss wide receivers do quite well. That's

616
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: a guy who wasn't ranked before. He's the exact opposite

617
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: of you know if if you're he's not DK Metcalf.

618
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: He's not a j Brown. He's five five, um, but

619
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: he leads a country with eighty six catches, has almost

620
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: twelve hundred receiving yards, having a year. Yeah, I will

621
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: say what I do know about this receiver class is

622
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people think it will rival these last two,

623
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: which is remarkable. So the Steelers might get a really

624
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: good one the third round, or you know what I

625
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: mean if they decided to go that right. He also

626
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: leads the nation and missed tackles with eighteen so he's

627
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: a JITTERU. Yeah. Another wide receiver. The other l s

628
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: U receiver, Terence Terrace Marshall Jr. Um. He wasn't a

629
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: super well known dude because Chase and Jefferson and yeah,

630
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: we're on the awesome team and now they're both gone,

631
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: and he's probably another five star recruit. He's got good size,

632
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: he's having a really good year. Yeah. Another Michigan guy

633
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: who is a to me, uh, high profile guy who

634
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: really hasn't produced much. It's quitty a pay He's number

635
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: twenty five or six F two seventy two in three

636
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: plus seasons. He has eleven and a half sex. I

637
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: don't want anything to do with that guy. Yeah, I

638
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. There's Uh. Penn State has a

639
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: dude like that too, and I should know his name

640
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: off top of my head. He's got a really short

641
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: last name too. That's an edge. Both of them are

642
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: freak athletes. They're gonna be awesome testers. They'll probably go

643
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: to Combine and light it up. Um. But doesn't match

644
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: the production on the field type of deal. Yeah, I

645
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: want to see a production not. Are you talking about

646
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: Shaka Tony No, I forget his name. I'll look it

647
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: up and between. But I'm sure many Penn State fans

648
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: are throwing their um. Sure, if you're looking for those

649
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. And I think you know, we talked to

650
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: Bob yesterday, Bob Labriol yesterday, and he's like, hey, take

651
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: he take two offensive linemen in the first three rounds

652
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: and you know, start rebuilding that the top offensive tackles

653
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: a quarter to mel We've mentioned Sewell Dry saw Us

654
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: caused me from tex Texas. Uh, Dylan rad Nutt Reddens

655
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: from North North Dakota State is his fourth guy. I've

656
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: just heard the name. Yeah, Alex Leatherwood out of Alabama's

657
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: the number five. Um, you'd be more than happy to

658
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: get an Alabama alignment. Yeah. Yeah, and they're all highly

659
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 1: recruited and you know, no question about coached well and

660
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. From what I understand, I mean,

661
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: the tackle market is superstar to top. Yeah, and then

662
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: a decent group after that. And they probably all have

663
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: a ward or two. But you know, we'll see Liam

664
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: Eckenberg from Notre Dame number six, Jalen Mayfield from Michigan

665
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 1: number seven. Eckenburgh is a lot like McGlinchey, really long, um,

666
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: little nastier than McGlinchey and not quite as athletic. Yeah,

667
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: and McGlinchey has been fine. Fourteenth pick in the draft

668
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:55,919
Speaker 1: or something. It's been a starter ever since, and yeah

669
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: he's good. Uh, trave Tevin Jenkins out of Oklahoma State,

670
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: e Brady Christensen out of b y U nine, and

671
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: Walker Little out of Stanford. At ten he was an

672
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: absolutely the guards after Slater, you got White Davis out

673
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: of Ohio State. Most people consider him the top guard

674
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: if you if you're gonna be a depending where you

675
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: play Slater, Elijah vera Tucker out of USC, number three,

676
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: tree pound type guy. Big, They hights and waits there.

677
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: Uh they don't. But okay, I don't worry about I

678
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: think he's a heavier maller. No, that doesn't mean anything.

679
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: Get to the combine and be you know, three fifty five,

680
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: three oh five. Um, I lost my spot guard ranking.

681
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: I suppose there's some centers in this draft. To um.

682
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: Then you're looking at Trey Smith from Tennessee, Aaron Banks

683
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: from Notre Dame, uh Ed Ingram from l s U,

684
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: Zion Johnson from Boston College, Deante Brown from Alabama, David

685
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: Moore from Grambling, and Ben Cleveland from George. The top

686
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 1: center Landon Dickerson from Alabama. He's been quite good. Number

687
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: two Tyler Linda Linderbaum from Iowa. UH, Creed Humphrey, love

688
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: that name. Treed Humphrey out of Oklahoma, UM East be

689
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: it took an Oklahoma guarden. You expecting him to be

690
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 1: able to run block? I don't know if you want

691
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: that show how to get into a three point stands

692
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: uh Drew Dalman from Stanford, Nick Ford from Utah, Trey

693
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: Hill from Georgia, Josh Myers from UH Ohio State, Michael

694
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: Manet or is it Minette? I can't remember much? Yeah

695
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: from Penn State. James Empy from b y U, and

696
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: Jimmy Morrissey from Pitt are your toptense center. Yeah, Pitt's

697
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys. Penn State's got a bunch

698
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: of guys. Good for them. I mean I'd consider drafting

699
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 1: center absolutely. Then they need to get somebody and if

700
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: he also can play some guard for you, that's that

701
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: would be ideal. Yeah, a pure center would be hard

702
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: for me to pull the trigger on because if only

703
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 1: one guy can get hurt for him to see the field,

704
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: you love that situation. But if he's big enough and

705
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: that's the thing he has to be big enough. He

706
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: can't be one of these two nine pounds centers. He's

707
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 1: gotta be a guy that's capable of you know, three

708
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,760
Speaker 1: oh five and six three or five, capable of holding

709
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: up a few times, like when Hoss goes over guard.

710
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: It's like he looked very little. Yeah, especially standing next

711
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: to al Right, it looks like Allan his little brother.

712
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: Too many Chris Jones of the world. Are you gotta

713
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: deal with absolute length? And yeah he is. Matt Williamson,

714
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lally. You're listening to the Drive here on

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Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna take a break. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back with more Steelers talk right after this. Your tunes

717
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,799
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719
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Speaker 1: dancing to beat, dancing, beating, beating, beating beads. Welcome back.

720
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Ali here with Matt Williamson and uh Matt

721
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: the we We usually do these on Friday, but they're

722
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: out early this week. I guess because the games. Uh

723
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: we got the games of course tonight and then too

724
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Lots of lots of action this week. Yeah,

725
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: uh so, it's the quarterback rankings from NFL dot Com.

726
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: Of course, if they do the it's Bompari, Blair, Felice

727
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: and par making their their rankings and then they go

728
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: from there. Number thirty two holding firm is Brandon Allen.

729
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: It's gotta be the Bengal situations. It doesn't matter who

730
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: they put in there. He's thirty two, folks, We're not

731
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: going to one telling any of the Bengals have issues. Yeah,

732
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: although Felice didn't vote him two, he voted him thirty one.

733
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 1: That it's the only it wasn't unanimous this week because

734
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 1: he voted Sam Donald number thirty one. That's a little

735
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: ralph or. He voted Sam Donald thirty two. But Sam

736
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: Donald is thirty one on this list. I'm a Donald apologist,

737
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: but he's a lot better than what's going on in

738
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cincinnati right now. There's just not a lot to

739
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,760
Speaker 1: work with. I mean that that situation is the buildings

740
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: on fire and he's standing, you're holding the hose with

741
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: nobody turning it on. Number thirty down four spots Nick Mullins. Yeah,

742
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: he's been exposed a little bit. He's been exposed, right,

743
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: the system can only do so much. And you know, yeah,

744
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: the more tape you get on these guys, the worse

745
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: at kits Uh number twenty nine, up two spot. This

746
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: might be a little rough on this guy. He's played

747
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: better Mr Bisky. That is a little rough, And I've

748
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: been hard on Mitch and I don't take any of

749
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: that back. But he's been a lot better than Foals

750
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: and the offense has worked on. I think I can

751
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: find five or six quarterbacks who are worse than Mr

752
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: Bisky playing worse. He's got this reputation of being horrible,

753
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: but I don't know if that's written in stone quite yet.

754
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: I actually I have him in my DFS lineup right

755
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: now for this my one that I put in my preview.

756
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: He's better for fantasy. There's there's it was good value.

757
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: I can stack him and Allen Robinson and know that

758
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get point yeah, and nobody else right right uh.

759
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: Number twenty eight, he jumps into the rankings after not

760
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: playing the last few weeks. That's Gardner Minshew. I think

761
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: probably better than that. Yeah, I think Minshew is gonna

762
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: be Ryan Fitzpatrick in his career. Probably he bounce around

763
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: and you know, Pat out of games and do some

764
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: good things. It's some bad things. Yeah, he'll get you know,

765
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: fifteen years later, you know he'll have a bad bear

766
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: down to his knees and exactly, uh twenty seven and

767
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: down four spots. Cam Newton even be a tough one

768
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: to rank. I mean, there's no production five touchdown pass.

769
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: If you if his name right now, if you if

770
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: you take away the rushing stats, which I know you can't,

771
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 1: but sure his numbers aren't any different from Sam Donald's.

772
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: Mhm wow. I mean he's in a bad situation. He's

773
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: actually throwing more interceptions than Donald. Sometimes he looks great.

774
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't do anything. Yeah, I don't know. I

775
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: mean they're there, their their weapons stink and we but yeah,

776
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: he's no, that has not been experiments. They're not gonna

777
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: bring him back to anything. I wouldn't think they're gonna

778
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: move on. Yeah. Number twenty six Drew lock up two

779
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: spots like Himan Trobisky. About the same for me. Yeah,

780
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: not that love with either, but locks playing better. Five

781
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Okay, he's twenty five any year, same as

782
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: ten years ago. Okay, now we're moving on. This is

783
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: this is I Number twenty four up three spots. Jalen Hurts.

784
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: Come on, he ran for a bunch of yards. He

785
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 1: didn't look out of plays. He's completing fift his passes.

786
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,439
Speaker 1: He completed like twelve balls or something. H played one game.

787
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: That's a bit extreme. Uh. Number twenty three, this guy

788
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,479
Speaker 1: is also up a spot, which come on, Taysom Hillsom Hill, Yeah,

789
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: he didn't look any better this week. He's playing how

790
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: many games he started? Now? At quarterback? He's got four

791
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, two interceptions, and he doesn't throw the ball

792
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: down the field at all. Everything I mean, I I

793
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: believe that Peyton thinks he has a chance to be great.

794
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: But I believe I believe I went with Sean Payton

795
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: has been smoking. If Sean Payton goes into next season

796
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill is a starting quarterback, he's just not

797
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: gonna work. I'm sorry. He's much different than lam Are

798
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: to me. You know what I mean. It is in

799
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: terms of passing ability and running it. I mean everything

800
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: about him. You've got to dedicate yourself to that system.

801
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,439
Speaker 1: He's not good enough to do that with. I just don't.

802
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,919
Speaker 1: I don't see it either. Number twenty one Holding Firm

803
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. Okay, he seems to get a little bit

804
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: more benefit the doubt that he deserves. I mean everything,

805
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: get four touchdown passes, six interceptions. Yeah, and he never

806
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: puts the ball in harm's way. And still that's the

807
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 1: best you can generated. I and T ratio. Uh. Number

808
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: twenty one down a spot, Daniel Jones, as he should,

809
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: but he was playing hurt. I mean, I'm not going

810
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: to dig him for that game. I'm not either. And

811
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: they were kind of turned a corner with him before

812
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: his injury and running him a lot, and then he

813
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: couldn't run. You know, that's a problem. He's not good

814
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: enough with the other stuff to get away with that.

815
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: Number twenty Teddy Bridgewater down a spot. He's Andy Dalton.

816
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: Yeah he should be down there. Matt Ryan falls two

817
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: sputs to nineteen. I didn't think he could go lower.

818
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: He's going lower. I kind of at defend him anymore.

819
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: It's getting bad, throwing throwing the ball away. Yeah, it's

820
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: getting bad, looking like Rivers a year ago. You know.

821
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: Number eighteen, this is up four spots to a. I

822
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 1: guess I mean he played all right, Yeah, I mean

823
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: he showed the ability to bring his team back a

824
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: little bit in which he had you know, that's new

825
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: for him with no interceptions. I thought he threw an

826
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: interception in that game. I don't remember. I remembered him

827
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,439
Speaker 1: throwing one in that game. Number seventeen up a spot,

828
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. Okay, he can carve you up or you

829
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: can look really bad. Speaking of which number sixteen is

830
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. I do think Rivers has gotten better and

831
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: has exceeded my expectations. I thought it would be a

832
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: real liability and worse than what they had last year,

833
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 1: and even better than that. But he needs to be protected.

834
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: Number fifteen down seven spots one Benjamin Roethlisberger. That seems

835
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: a little rough if you look at his numbers compared

836
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 1: to those are Rivers. He's got twenty nine touchdown passes.

837
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: Rivers has eighteen. They both have nine interceptions. Roethlisprograss thirteen

838
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: rushing yards, Rivers has minus five. Like they're they're they're

839
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: not even on the same I understand Ben has not

840
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: played well the last two games, but he's not anywhere

841
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: near Philip Rivers right now. And Howard Benna played if

842
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: he had Jonathan Taylor ripping off big yards fifty yards

843
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: rushing in it was playing against the Raiders or against

844
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: terrible Raiders. Uh number four teen down to spot. Kirk Cousins.

845
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: You give me a choice right now. You want Kirk

846
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: Cousins running your team, you want Ben roethlisbergra I'm taking roethlisb.

847
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: Everybody would take roeths Number thirteen up a spot. Matthew Stafford,

848
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: he's all banged up. He's gonna play this week game.

849
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: You know, I like the player a lot, but stuff.

850
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: Uh number twelve up three spots. Baker Mayfield, he's playing well,

851
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: he's played better, he still makes the crucial mistake. I

852
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: mean two really good games in a row. I mean

853
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: I would have Aero pointing up on him. Number even

854
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:04,760
Speaker 1: down a spot. Derek Carr, Yeah, he just doesn't do anything.

855
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 1: He doesn't do anything. It doesn't do anything I've seen.

856
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 1: I think he's Kirk Cousins. That's who he is. Yeah,

857
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: they're they're good enough to right, He's good enough, but

858
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 1: they're not gonna get They're not gonna You're not gonna

859
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: win with those guys. I mean, maybe you give a

860
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: year that it all lines up. And Eli was kind

861
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: of like that, you know, like, yeah, exactly. The defense

862
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: has to go right. Number ten back up a spot

863
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, based off of that game last week where

864
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 1: he did nothing and through it he a crucial pick

865
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: that should cost him the game if Matt Ryan didn't

866
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: also then give it back. I'm excited to watch him

867
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 1: at night, by the way, but there his best moments

868
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 1: haven't come in the last couple of weeks for sure.

869
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: Number nine up three spots. Off of that game that

870
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,479
Speaker 1: he had last weekend. I don't get it, Tom Brady, Yeah,

871
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: he did not. He didn't play well, right right, Yeah, Okay,

872
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: here's where it gets interesting. Number seven holding firm, Kyler Murray,

873
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: and he's starting to look a little bit more like himself.

874
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 1: I think he's past the injury. Number tied at seven,

875
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: up two spots, Lamar Jackson. He's started to look more

876
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: like Lamar running wise. I didn't think he threw the

877
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: ball particularly well the other day. No, I don't either,

878
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: but I still think that's a problem for them. Passing

879
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: game worries me. Number six holding firm, Russell Wilson. Okay,

880
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: he's had a really good year, but he has not

881
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: been lately. Number five down two spots, DeShawn Watson. I

882
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: mean that's a rough situation and no protection. And yeah,

883
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 1: number four up a spot, Ryan Tanney Hill. I can't

884
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: put Tannehill. I can't either. I can't either. I'm sorry.

885
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: I know he's playing well, he is, He's having a

886
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: better year than Ben. I'm not going to go there

887
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: or anything, but I can't put over Russell No. No.

888
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: Number three up a spot, Josh Allen, I can't put.

889
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,959
Speaker 1: I can't put him above Russell Wilson either, just can't.

890
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 1: He's having a year, he's having a great year, but

891
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: I can't put him again. Still, he's still turned the

892
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 1: ball over fifteen times, like nine nine interceptions is six

893
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: fumbles and it could have been more than that you

894
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: mentioned before too. They could be due for a letdown.

895
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: We got a new number two, Patrick Mahomes falls falls

896
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: out of the top spot three interception games. He gets

897
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: bumped down because you look at what number one is doing,

898
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers thirty nine touchdown passes, four interceptions. It's hard

899
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: to hard to argue with that. Yeah, I mean the

900
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 1: guy's ice fand I mean there's no mistakes. Yeah, I

901
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: mean it's hard those two stand alone, obviously, But I

902
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: have put Wilson on their tier, just of who do

903
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 1: I not want to play against the best quarterbacks in

904
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 1: the league. I'm five with Rogers. If it took them

905
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: drafting Jordan's Love in the first round to really tick

906
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers off and get him locked in next year,

907
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: he drafted another quarterback next year like trade Love and

908
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: then driving again. I mean, because he has just been outstanding.

909
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, just nuts. He's completely almost seventy of his

910
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: passes and he does not dancing Duncan's. He never turns

911
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 1: the ball over. I mean Adams even wasn't there all

912
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: year round. The rest of receivers, he's turned into a

913
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: bunch of guys. Yeah, right right, and he's got a

914
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: real shot at the m v P. It's not just

915
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: my home, No, I think it's the legit. Yeah, because

916
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: they would be nowhere without Yeah, that's the quarterback rankings

917
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com. You can check those out there.

918
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: He is Matt Williams and I'm Dale Lolly. You're listening

919
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're gonna

920
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: be back with the Fantasy Football Focus right after this.

921
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson. On

922
00:49:47,400 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: Home of the Black and Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back.

923
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: I'm Dale. I'll we here with Matt Williamson and Matt

924
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: It's time for the Fantasy football focus. So we will

925
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: go around the league here see who's practicing who is not.

926
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: Remember there are Thursday and Saturday games this week, so

927
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: set your lineups accordingly in addition to the Sunday and Monday.

928
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: You got a stagger him though. I mean, if you're

929
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: waiting on a guy to be healthy Monday night, you

930
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: might have to make that decision right now, you know. Yeah,

931
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some decisions that you're gonna have to

932
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 1: make early. Um. David Johnson said he fully expects to

933
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: be uh to go this week against the Colts. He

934
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: of course, was on the COVID list last week. I

935
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: said it was just a close contact. Uh so no

936
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: illness there, fair enough, le I guess he's usable not

937
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:03,399
Speaker 1: doing cart wheels a gat. David had a surprising Duke

938
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: Johnson game last week. Again they threw him again. When

939
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: he plays, they threw him the football. You know. Yeah, well,

940
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,439
Speaker 1: well Duke's not usuable anymore. No, he goes back into

941
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: being Yeah, this is interesting out of Philadelphia. Darius Slays

942
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: dealing with a concussion, uh and was limited at Thursday's practice. Um,

943
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: they're playing the Cardinals this week. If he can't go,

944
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, Yeah, and they're also Rodney Rodney Clouds out

945
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: for the year. Avante Maddox is out at the knee,

946
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: and like they were D line and that's it. Yeah,

947
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: right now they have D line Slay and that's it,

948
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: and you know and then they D line and that's

949
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: it for Kyl. Would be great for Kyler, Yeah, we

950
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: were We talked about him earlier in the week. Hey,

951
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,839
Speaker 1: Kyler hasn't been Kyler were late. Yeah, they could, they

952
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: could have some success. They're throwing football. If especially if

953
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: Slay doesn't happen. Ques Julio Jones and not practicing it

954
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: again on Thursday, I would not expect him to go. Yeah,

955
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: there's just I just don't expect that to happen. The

956
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: great Moli Cox with the knee injury did not practice today.

957
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: He's obviously not usable. But yeah, the Pro Football Focus,

958
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: he's the number two, Yeah, the propol tight end. And yeah,

959
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: James Conner not practicing today. We talked about that. I

960
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: think he'll he'll play on you think, so, Yeah, I'm not.

961
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that. Here's one we talked about

962
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, and and uh, this is positive.

963
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: Mike Kasicki was limited Thursday, but at least he practiced.

964
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: I really, last two games, he's gotten seventeen targets, which

965
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: for tight ends is just massive. You know, looks his

966
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:45,919
Speaker 1: direction often and the receivers are banged up right right right? Yea, yeah,

967
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: he's able to go. He's a top five tight end.

968
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah. DeVante Parker was limited today with the hamstring,

969
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: so mean he maybe he's trending in the rats in

970
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: the Joachine Grant also limited, as was Salvon Akmed. Apparently

971
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: the entire Dolphins offense is limited. Uh if Akmed is

972
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: not back, uh. Mount Miles Gascon remains on the COVID list,

973
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: looking like DeAndre Washington again. Yeah, I think Breed has

974
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: been activated. But they don't like him for what. Yeah,

975
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: they I don't know why they went out and got him,

976
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: but they don't. They don't play him. They don't ever

977
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: play him. I guess it's Washington. Or here's an interesting one.

978
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: The Giants placed James Bradberry on the COVID list. That's

979
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: a problem. That's a problem. He's been really good this year. Um,

980
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: they get the Browns and it's not like you'd follow

981
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: Landry probably they do play a lot of down but

982
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: he's their best. He's the best guy for and the

983
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: brown has been throwing the ball. Well, Yeah, I agree. Um.

984
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel was with a hamstring was added to the

985
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 1: Panthers injury report. He's questionable now for Week fifteen against

986
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: He's always an interesting guy for fantasy. He's always a

987
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 1: little tough to quite pull the trigger on. He's always

988
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: a borderline decision for me. It doesn't they're not gonna

989
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: have Christian mccam free. They would use him if he's healthy,

990
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: they use him and some of those McCaffrey type of things. Yeah,

991
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: it gets touches and he's explosive. If he's a free

992
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: agent after the year, I'm curious with team somebody somebody's

993
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: gonna him. Yeah, figure out ways to use it. Um.

994
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nette uh Byron leftwich On, who is the

995
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 1: course now the offensive coordinator in Tampa, hinted that Leonard

996
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 1: Fournette would be the Bucks lead back with Ronald Jones out.

997
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: He was inactive last week. That's what you want to hear.

998
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: He wanted somebody to say it exactly. Yeah, that's what

999
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: all said, you know, because Ny was a healthy scratch

1000
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: last week, yes week, and then Jones gets hurt. He's

1001
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: not gonna play this week, right, and it's got to

1002
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: be four Net. Yeah, um left, which said exactly. He said,

1003
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: he's been great. Uh, he's been here all week putting

1004
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: in the work. He's working since he got here. It's

1005
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: great to have a guy like that who you can

1006
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: lean on. He said, the word worked twice. The work

1007
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: ethic was a little lackluster last week. Well, you know,

1008
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: for a guy like four you know, four Net has

1009
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,280
Speaker 1: been a starter, he's been the star and almost sudden

1010
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: he gets pushed pushed the side with a new team,

1011
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: like you know, the expectation was when Tampa signed him,

1012
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 1: Oh he'll pass Ronald Jones up at some point. And

1013
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: Jones has been you know, continually to get the you know,

1014
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: the bulk of the carries. And I'm sure maybe he

1015
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: pouted a little bit. The best reputation of being a

1016
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: great team guy and worker. Anyway. Yeah, so if he

1017
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: plays against the Falcons, um he's an RB two. I

1018
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: think he's a great player, which is a great situation.

1019
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: It's a fantastic situation. Yeah, exactly. Um, Drew Brees has

1020
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: taken some first team reps in practice this week and

1021
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 1: now has a chance to start against Kansas City. That's

1022
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: gonna be on the screen. He has a ways to go.

1023
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they're I think they're playing

1024
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: that their little cat and mouse this week and they

1025
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: don't have they don't have to activate him until Saturday. Um,

1026
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: you know they that could go right up until Saturday

1027
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: and they said, oh, hey, Drew Brees is fine, He's

1028
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: good to go. I think that's exactly what's happening here.

1029
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna play, though, I don't know

1030
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: leaning towards he does. I'm sure he. Had they not

1031
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: lost last week, I would say, oh, they'll they'll probably

1032
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,360
Speaker 1: see him game. But yeah, they're right up against it

1033
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: for the bye. Yeah they I mean they need to

1034
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: keep winning now. They need green baitis to stumble. The

1035
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: little I know about Breeze and this is true for

1036
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: a lot of athletes, but particular with him, he is

1037
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: probably nagging them to know, no doubt because this is

1038
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: probably his last year, right, and so he wants to

1039
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: play every game he you know, now all of a sudden,

1040
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: Brady has moved ahead of him in the touchdown pass. Oh,

1041
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: there's no doubt because he's gonna lose that. Brady comes

1042
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: back next right anyway, But if he were he if

1043
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: he retires as well, I hell, I was a touchdown

1044
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: leader when I retired, I was a m so that

1045
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: stuff matters. That. Daniel Jones, with the hamstring and ankle,

1046
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: was estimated as limited for Thursday's practice. Um, they play

1047
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 1: Sunday night. I don't expect him to play. They need

1048
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: to win though, that's the that's the thing. That's the thing. Yeah,

1049
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. I don't know which direction you're

1050
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: leading on that one. I don't know. Because McCoy is

1051
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: not that bad, yeah you know. I mean he's won

1052
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: games with you know, in the league, and the Browns

1053
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: defense is not But if Jones can't run, I don't

1054
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: think you play. Yeah, I don't. I think if he

1055
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: can't protect himself, yeah, you know, because that's that's that's

1056
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: a part of his game. It is. Um, here's one.

1057
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 1: If you have Brandon McManus as your kicker, he is out.

1058
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: He's on the reserve COVID list now, so he's been

1059
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: replaced by a Taylor Russellino. Um, I don't want to

1060
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: just plug and play that. No, just pick up you

1061
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: better pick up somebody else. But yeah, make sure that's

1062
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: a and that's a Saturday game. So don't get stuck

1063
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: with Brandon. Yeah, you don't get stuck with Brandon McManus

1064
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: in your lineup and take a zero there. Actually Yeah. Uh.

1065
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson with the toe injury worked on the side

1066
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: at Thursday's practice. He's not gonna play this week. He's gone,

1067
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: but I'm excited for him to get back. I like

1068
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: him a lot. He's a big part of that offense.

1069
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't they're saying that's as they're saying,

1070
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a game time decision. If he's working

1071
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: on the side now, he's not gonna play. Maybe next week.

1072
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: Maybe next week. Yeah, maybe that's fine, but yeah, he

1073
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: sure screams limited. If he's even does dress this week, right,

1074
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: he would not be what you're you're after. I don't

1075
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: think this is not the geory you're after. Alex Smith

1076
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: with the caff injury did not practice again. Today. I

1077
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: don't think that he's gonna play. I don't either. I

1078
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: think if I'm the if I'm the Washington team and

1079
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there, Okay, I know I have to finish

1080
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: your head of the Giants, but I'm looking at saying, Okay,

1081
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. They don't have Daniel Jones their dog in

1082
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: that game. I mean, I'm not sure they Cleveland beats him,

1083
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: but there's a good chance that they do. Yeah. Yeah,

1084
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: I'm not a Haskins believer either, but I wouldn't mind

1085
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: seeing him play another game. And you're playing they're playing

1086
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. You're probably gonna lose that game regardless, but

1087
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: you know, you should be able to move the ball

1088
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: on offense a little bit. Yeah. I tend to think

1089
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: when out with Alex Smith's leg injury, you to say no. Yeah,

1090
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: considering the history. We mentioned Brandon Allen earlier as the

1091
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: quarterback the number of the thirty second ranked quarterback in

1092
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: the league. Uh, he was sidelined today with a knee

1093
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: injury for the Bengals. Okay, I mean Finley is even worse.

1094
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: He's a thirty, He's he's the fifth. Yeah, he's you know,

1095
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: he's behind the devil and Hodges and some other guys

1096
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: who are on practice squads. Neither one is dangerous or

1097
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: all that much different, I guess to even prepare for

1098
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: if you're the Steelers, Allen is a better athlete or

1099
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: the two. Obviously, neither one is anything can be running

1100
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: for his life un their life. Yeah, Finley is just

1101
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: a big tall statue that can throw. Yeah. Zeke Elliott

1102
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: sideline today remain limited at Thursday for the Cowboys. Yeah,

1103
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: he's in that mold of superstar where they gave him

1104
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: a lot of money recently. Does the owner want to

1105
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: use them up for these kind of games? I leaned

1106
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: towards no On, you know, McCaffrey's and Judios in those

1107
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 1: type of dudes. But if it's not real horrible, I'm

1108
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: sure he'll play. But Paulard's role grows time and time again. Yeah,

1109
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: like I had a you know, I forget who my

1110
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: my conversation or who I was picking from, but just

1111
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: like a wide receiver three or Zeke for my one

1112
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: flex spot, and I put Zeke on the bench. You're saying,

1113
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: ay it was Ayuke. Yeah, and Deante Johnson was also

1114
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,000
Speaker 1: was two of those three. And I said, I'm gonna

1115
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: I think Deanta blows up. I think Dante's gonna be fine.

1116
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: He's gonna get peppered. Was leaving him and I didn't

1117
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: bring him up. I think Claypool is gonna be fine too.

1118
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: This week. He's gonna trying to get that fixed as well.

1119
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: He's probably right about that. Kenny Golladay, with the hip injury,

1120
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: made sideline for Thursday's practice. Another one, and I actually

1121
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: heard a rumor about him, and it's unsubstantiated. I don't

1122
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 1: know if it's true or not, but he doesn't want

1123
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: to play free agent the end of the year. No,

1124
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: I don't need I don't have anything to prove we're

1125
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: not going yeah, right right doesn't mean a thing to me. Sorry, um.

1126
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison returned to practice on Thursday. He's coming back

1127
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: off an appendeck. To me, it's gotten so much to work.

1128
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: I would think his workload at least gets kind of

1129
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: into him. Yeah, because when when they have both of

1130
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: those guys, he gets you know, Madison typically gets five

1131
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: to ten carries a game with him out. It's been

1132
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: all it's all pen all Cook better and for Cook. Yeah, lately,

1133
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: this is good news. For IRV Smith, Kyle Rudolph for

1134
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: main sidelined Tis this week. If I'm firing up if

1135
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 1: Smith for the dfs LA. Philip Lindsay and Melvin Gordon

1136
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:30,600
Speaker 1: are both questionable for week fifteen, a Saturday. That those

1137
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: designations came out today, Uh, Lindsay's a hip, Gordon's a shoulder. Um,

1138
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: if you had to lean towards one of those guys

1139
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: playing and the other one not, I would probably lean

1140
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: towards Gordon playing. I like Gordon better for fantasy, and

1141
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 1: I think he's got a better chance to play. But

1142
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: luckily that's a Saturday. And if you have either mon

1143
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: yeah you'll know. But if you if one plays the

1144
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: other doesn't, I'm definitely starting the guy that plays. Oh yeah,

1145
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna get touched on, but I think that's a

1146
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: good situation for one of them. They both play well

1147
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: what you watching on h Jamison crowd are limited at

1148
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: Thursday's practice with a calf issue. They don't never move

1149
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: the ball at all. Yeah, attractive as he once was.

1150
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 1: Even looking at tonight's game, Adam Schefter reporting that Mike

1151
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: Williams not expected to play. He's also reporting, um, the

1152
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: Chargers are concerned that they won't have Keenan Allen tonight

1153
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 1: as well. Um N, but you can't. You can't start

1154
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: the rookie. You can't start Herbert Herbert even against such

1155
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: a great matchup. It's a fantastic matchup. Might passes if

1156
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 1: he's healthy. That's the he was. He was questionable as well.

1157
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: They're they're all kinds of banged up. Yeah, a long

1158
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,920
Speaker 1: week coming up to I bet you lean towards not

1159
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 1: playing any of them if you're the Chargers. Yeah. Bill's

1160
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: coach Saw McDermott said John Brown won't play Week fifteen

1161
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: against the Broncos. He's soon, he's he's practicing now. They

1162
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: get the three week window to activate him. But he's

1163
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: been banged up all years. Has been a little bit.

1164
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, I like playing him when he's out there.

1165
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 1: R is expected to play tonight. According to Tom Pellasaro, um,

1166
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: Robert Woods was sidelined with a thigh issue. You're worried

1167
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: about that one. They played a Jets this week, could

1168
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: really shut him down and be okay, Yeah, that's what

1169
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: you're worried about. And yeah, if you're into your fantasy games,

1170
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: I don't need him to win you favored by like

1171
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half. Wow. Yeah, I'd be real worried.

1172
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 1: But if if that happens, then do you grab Josh Reynolds? Yes, yeah,

1173
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 1: I mean I think he'd be he'd be a good,

1174
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: a nice replacement there to throw in there. So far,

1175
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: he's sitting there offseason r Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's he's

1176
01:03:40,840 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: gonna make some money. Um. James Robinson was limited on Wow.

1177
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,439
Speaker 1: I mean he's got he's dealing with a knee issue,

1178
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: so keep an eye on that as well. They don't

1179
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: They really don't have a backup. There's is the next guy.

1180
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:56,959
Speaker 1: We haven't seen any of him. I mean obviously it's

1181
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: like every time, every touch. Yeah, so yeah, that's the

1182
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,959
Speaker 1: that's the award for owners a bid I mean people,

1183
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: he's been a savior for people. Absolutely. Yeah. Um, Tonight's game.

1184
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: I can't start any Chargers' starting car over Herbert Jacobs

1185
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: is I mean, if I had to start one of

1186
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: the two, I'm leaning towards car, but I wouldn't love it.

1187
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 1: Waller I love, Yeah, do you love Henry? With those

1188
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: other guys out, I guess is gonna play, So he's

1189
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,600
Speaker 1: gonna eat. You're gonna play him, he's gonna get Pepper

1190
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: but targets without question. Yeah, I don't know. I don't

1191
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: have a good feel for tonight's game. I don't have

1192
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: any I don't have any feel for it. Yeah, both

1193
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:39,919
Speaker 1: of these teams are checking out all day. Many people

1194
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: would ask me about it. I don't have The Chargers

1195
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: don't know how to win in the Raiders are the Raiders?

1196
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: They just they looked awful. Yeah, and their defense is

1197
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: really really bad. Yeah. I agree. That's a tough one

1198
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Speaker 1: for me. He is Matt Williamson. I'm Dale Lally. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to the Drive here on Steelers Nation Radio. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. We come back with more Steelers

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Speaker 1: stuck right after this your tunes about drive on your

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01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: twenty four seven home of the Black and Gold Steelers

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Speaker 1: Nation Radio. Welcome back up. Deal all we here with

1204
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: Matt Langton and Matt as we do every week, we

1205
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: will go through the Bengals position by position and compare

1206
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:12,959
Speaker 1: them to what the Steelers have here and so people

1207
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: get a better idea of what since here. Yeah, and

1208
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: I know we did this. We did this five weeks

1209
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 1: ago with the Bengals. Well, things have changed a little

1210
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: bit not for the better and not for the better

1211
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 1: maybe for either team. And you could go around the

1212
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: league and probably find a lot of that, right, I mean,

1213
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 1: people fall It's a rough game. So at quarterback it

1214
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 1: is Brandon Allen, who is questionable this week as we said,

1215
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: he just he did not practice today. And then Ryan Finley.

1216
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 1: One note about both those guys. They both think Alan

1217
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: has very small hands, you know, just like you know,

1218
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: and there' will be some degree of what I think

1219
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 1: T J. Watt gets like three sacks in this game.

1220
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about fumbles in the pocket, you know that

1221
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 1: type of stuff too. This game. This is gonna be ugly,

1222
01:06:57,560 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 1: Like this is gonna be a turn the game off

1223
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: at halftime. Steelers have a point to prove a lot

1224
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: of people across the country that don't watch the Steelers

1225
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 1: like we do will be turning the game off at halftime.

1226
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: I'm going to bed hunt, you know, right. Unfortunately, I'll

1227
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:15,520
Speaker 1: be stuck there in the stadium watching the massacre. Running

1228
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: Back Joe Mixon remains on i R. He will not

1229
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: be back for this game. So it's Giovanni bernard Is

1230
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: somaj p Run and Trevia Williams. Trevia Williams got most

1231
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: of the run last ye. Yeah, so he's starting to

1232
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 1: kind of step up and he's got some ability. He's

1233
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: not super he's not super big, but I had a

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01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: little bit of a track record in college and I

1235
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: think he's a fifth round pick, so he's not a nobody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah what running back room? Would you rather have? Either

1237
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 1: is particularly great? I mean, well, we just said that

1238
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 1: they have fewer ten yard runs than the Steelers, and

1239
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 1: they had Joe Mixon for half the season, and it

1240
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: looks like Geo is like worn down already. Yeah, he's

1241
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 1: that much of him, but that's just what he does.

1242
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: I mean, he's tiny. I'd rather have the I'd rather

1243
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 1: have the Steelers too, just because Conn. Yeah. Uh, wide receiver,

1244
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: it's Tyler Boyd, T Higgins, A J. Green with Alex

1245
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: Ericson backing him up John Ross. No surprise ares on

1246
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 1: I R. There's talent there. It's a good group. Boyd

1247
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 1: and Higgins are the part of the long term plan.

1248
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 1: Borrow Green is on his last legs. Yeah, I don't

1249
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 1: think he'll be back. I think he'd be a long shot.

1250
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 1: I think Higgins could be a star um, but I

1251
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:21,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't trade him for the Seals guys. No, I wouldn't either.

1252
01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's a good boy, without a doubt.

1253
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: That's the that's their number one position group. The tight

1254
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 1: ends or Drew Sample, Sethan Carter, Mason, Shrek, CJ. Zuma

1255
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 1: is now on. Zuma is a quality player, Samples more

1256
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:37,720
Speaker 1: of a blocker, but they used the second round pick

1257
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 1: on him. He's okay. I mean like Seals could use

1258
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: Drew sample. I mean if he played for the Steelers,

1259
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: but I don't think he brought over those guys. McDonald's too.

1260
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,719
Speaker 1: The offensive line, it's not so good. Oh my god.

1261
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: Hakima Denjy is now starting at left tackle. Uh, Quentin

1262
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: Spain at left guard. They just picked him up off

1263
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: the scrap. He Trey Hopkins at center, Alex bad Yeah,

1264
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 1: Alex Redman at right guard, and Bobby Hard at right tackle.

1265
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,840
Speaker 1: It's bad. They like Bobby Hard. No one else does.

1266
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,040
Speaker 1: He's one of the probably the second best lineman. Now

1267
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 1: b J. Finny can't get on the field. I don't

1268
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 1: understand the Finny situation. I don't either. I mean, he

1269
01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: got traded that had he done something wrong since we

1270
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: knew him last Maybe they just don't you know, because

1271
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 1: he hasn't been quote unquote in this system. Um, but

1272
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 1: he's better than some of these guys that they're starting

1273
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: one of their And I mean maybe it's not as

1274
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 1: good as Hopkins, specially quintin Spain. Yeah, come on, Spain

1275
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: is a big, round, top heavy guy. Yeah. He cam's

1276
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 1: gonna eat the entire Steelers front is gonna eat this week. Yeah,

1277
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: they have no advantages. Um. On defense, the left defensive

1278
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:49,760
Speaker 1: end is Sam Hubbard at defensive tackle. Now with with

1279
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:52,640
Speaker 1: both DJ Reader and Gino Atkins are on I R,

1280
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 1: which looked like a pretty good pair of go to

1281
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: the season. And they're both on I R. As is

1282
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,920
Speaker 1: Renell Wren, who was one of their backups around pick

1283
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: or something a couple of years ago. Um. So it's

1284
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 1: Christian Covington, Xavier Williams and then Carl Lawson at the

1285
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 1: right defensive end. Yeah, that's a good good young players.

1286
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: But they're not they're not being productive. No, no, And

1287
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: they're early in the season. They shouldn't be playing as

1288
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:18,680
Speaker 1: much as they are. They had three of them and

1289
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: they all played sixty six percent of the snaps type

1290
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: of deal. Um, And they're good, but they're not great,

1291
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: and there's much better edge guys around the league, and

1292
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: the d tackles are problematic. They just Mike Daniels is

1293
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,320
Speaker 1: backing up on this. I don't know what happened to

1294
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:35,080
Speaker 1: his career all of a sudden. Yeah, nobody wants nobody

1295
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 1: wants to do with him anymore. Yeah, he might mean

1296
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 1: he must might be shot. Yeah, there's something going on

1297
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 1: Tim and Marcus Hunt behind those two guys that I

1298
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 1: forgot they even had him because he's been coming and gone.

1299
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:45,600
Speaker 1: They drafted him and then he left, and then I

1300
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:52,799
Speaker 1: was back the people. Uh linebacker, it's Jermaine Pratt, Logan Wilson,

1301
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: and Josh Bines. Wilson is questionable this week. H Wilson

1302
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:01,720
Speaker 1: is questionable period. Question on his best day, this is

1303
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: one of the games where and I don't know if

1304
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:07,880
Speaker 1: Vince Williams makes it back or not. But even with

1305
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: Avery Williamson, Avery Williamson is the best inside linebacker, could

1306
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: be the best Bengals lineback, right. No, I mean I

1307
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 1: still take the Steeler group, but that's we haven't taken.

1308
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: We haven't taken the Steelers group very often this year.

1309
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:21,280
Speaker 1: Not a line that's for sure. Yeah, this group is

1310
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:23,600
Speaker 1: really bad, and they've been bad for five years and

1311
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: they've used a couple of picks, but nobody's they're not

1312
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:29,400
Speaker 1: hitting on anything. No, it's it's it's pretty bad cornerback.

1313
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 1: He got Darius Phillips and William Jackson, UM mackenzie Alexander's

1314
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: now backing up Trey Wayne still On, I are Tony

1315
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: brown On, I R McKenzie. Alexander will be there. Yeah,

1316
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:44,640
Speaker 1: and he's a quality guy. They paid a lot of

1317
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: money for him, and Wayne's from Minnesota. Mixed results. I

1318
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 1: think Jackson's back to play him pretty well. You know

1319
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: that he would be a welcome edition to any team.

1320
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,560
Speaker 1: The Steelers lit him up the last time, so he

1321
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:56,559
Speaker 1: had a really rough game against the Steelers. And then

1322
01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 1: the other corners aren't so great. They're not very good. Yeah,

1323
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: doesn't hope. Yeah. I mean that's the thing. You don't

1324
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: know how good these corners are because there's no pass runs.

1325
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: You can't cover forever, you can't cover forever. It's a

1326
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 1: team game, and you gotta remember the situation these guys

1327
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: are in. And man, you know, bad football lends the

1328
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: more bad football, and just at this point now, these

1329
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be going, Okay, our offense can't score

1330
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: more in ten points. Yeah, I mean it's a much

1331
01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 1: worse situation than the Steelers a year ago. Yeah right,

1332
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: I mean, like it's just because you're not even in it,

1333
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 1: not even in any wins. We get our heads beat

1334
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 1: in every week and the offense is gonna help us,

1335
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:36,519
Speaker 1: Like this is this is just too challenging. The safeties

1336
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: are Van Bell and Jesse Bates. Not a bad Yeah,

1337
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: Bates is a good player. Sean Williams comes off the bench. Um,

1338
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: I think Bates is our best defensive player. Yeah, probably,

1339
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: I would. I mean Jackson would be in the conversation. Um,

1340
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 1: Lawson is in that conversation as well. But again it

1341
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: should be a should be more of a rotational guy.

1342
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: Like if if Carl Lawson was with the Steelers right now,

1343
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: he'd be starting, he'd be he'd be starting in place

1344
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 1: of but ye, and he would have got a lot

1345
01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: of snaps with Bud And yeah t J is a

1346
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:10,720
Speaker 1: rotation guy. And yeah he played for anyone a lot

1347
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,880
Speaker 1: of stabs. But if he's your best guy, that will

1348
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: protections to all those just the downhill, the snowball effect

1349
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:21,760
Speaker 1: of badness. Actually, in the last game. I thought, I

1350
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 1: thought Lawson villain, the wave at his handsful with Lawson. Yeah,

1351
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:28,439
Speaker 1: and he can get low. Yeah, Al has to get

1352
01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:30,840
Speaker 1: down to his level, which is difficult, kind of a

1353
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:33,600
Speaker 1: Harrison type situation. That was the one spot where I

1354
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 1: looked at and Okay, they had some issues there, but

1355
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if he does again. Yeah. But

1356
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: if that's the only spot where you I mean, if

1357
01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:42,720
Speaker 1: that's it, if that's the worst sing scenario. Yeah, yeah,

1358
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 1: you know what's exists stepping up against those d tackles.

1359
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:50,000
Speaker 1: Isn't that that's scary either. Yeah, it's It's not a

1360
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: good group. No, it's not. And they're on the field

1361
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:54,200
Speaker 1: all the time. The punners Kevin Hubert, Randy Bullock is

1362
01:13:54,240 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: the kicker, Alex Erickson's the guy on the kicks that

1363
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:00,639
Speaker 1: can do some things. Who's the punt return or Williams?

1364
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: They use ericson um he's also he's Wilson. Brandon Wilson. Yeah,

1365
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 1: Brandon Wilson is a kick returner. They used both of

1366
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 1: those guys interchangeably. They're they're they're not bad. No, I

1367
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 1: mean one thing. Under Taylor, they've been very good on

1368
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:17,360
Speaker 1: special teams. Overall. Yeah, I mean that's that's one area

1369
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,400
Speaker 1: that I'm a little concerned about, like maybe they break

1370
01:14:19,439 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 1: a big return or block a kick or something like that.

1371
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:27,879
Speaker 1: But even that, okay, it's one. Yeah, they need multiple yeah, exactly.

1372
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:31,400
Speaker 1: Otherwise it's just I mean's offense and Spider and Spider

1373
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 1: and Spider. But the other side, you know who's going

1374
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 1: to anyway. Yeah, Yeah, there's not much to get excited

1375
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:40,559
Speaker 1: about there. There really isn't. And again it's much different

1376
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: to the last time. Just again they played just five

1377
01:14:43,400 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and since around the Bengals back then. Yeah,

1378
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 1: since them Burrows going on, ir um A zoomas gone on,

1379
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 1: I R. Jonah Williams, Joa Williams has gone on, I R.

1380
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:57,120
Speaker 1: DJ Reader has gone on, I R. Geno Atkins has

1381
01:14:57,160 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: gone on. Ir Yeah, I mean that's there's there. This

1382
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 1: is maybe they're five best players, yeah, I mean the

1383
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,840
Speaker 1: most important. Yeah. I mean maybe not all their like,

1384
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: but there are five five of their top ten players

1385
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:12,719
Speaker 1: for sure, not to mention mix and yeah, hasn't played

1386
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: in forever. Yeah, I mean they just gave him huge money.

1387
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: He's a really good player. Yeah, it's it hasn't gone

1388
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: well outside their control, and they weren't that good to beginning.

1389
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: They weren't that good. They didn't have a lot of depths.

1390
01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 1: They had they had a few guys that allowed them

1391
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:29,720
Speaker 1: to be competitive, um, but not. I wonder if they're

1392
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: off season will look like I mean, well, they're gonna

1393
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: have money, but hope they go spend on three or

1394
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 1: four free agents they spent. They spent this year and

1395
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: you know this year, so I mean, do they look

1396
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: and got Well, we spent money on on DJ Reader

1397
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: and Trey Waynes and that didn't work out. We're not

1398
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: gonna do that again. Kind of way ownership thinks there.

1399
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: That's the way ownership thinks. That's the two corners and Reader,

1400
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:51,760
Speaker 1: And we sold the worst defense out there, right, but

1401
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:53,679
Speaker 1: didn't get better. You said, you said, if we spent

1402
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: money on these guys, it was going to get better,

1403
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:57,800
Speaker 1: and it didn't. But if you could convinced ownership to

1404
01:15:57,880 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: give me a starting middle linebacker, I mean, it doesn't

1405
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: have to be Dick, but GISs, I mean, just give

1406
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: me a starting middle linebacker and a starting guard. We'll

1407
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 1: draft the tackle when we'll get other stuff, you know,

1408
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:13,639
Speaker 1: And those positions have just been so bad for so long. Yeah,

1409
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:17,680
Speaker 1: you know, even again, you're not gonna fix this with

1410
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: just the draft. No, no, even with an early pick

1411
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: and Penny stool that's great. It's a premium position. And

1412
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:27,519
Speaker 1: but he's one guy. And okay, so he he allows

1413
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,200
Speaker 1: you to move. Uh, you know you're better two spots

1414
01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 1: probably for the long term. Great, great, but you still

1415
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: got problems on the interior and that doesn't fix your

1416
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 1: defense and the overall depth is still bad. That's you know,

1417
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: when you're picking in the top ten like that, I

1418
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: get it. To get that. If you're gonna get a

1419
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: chance to draft Jonathan Ogdenner, Atlanta pays one of these guys,

1420
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:53,400
Speaker 1: that's great, but they're not guys who make splash plays

1421
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 1: for you. No, I hear you're saying. Right, you know

1422
01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:58,360
Speaker 1: you're drafted in the top ten and you're draft in third.

1423
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 1: You know you want to get a guy who's going

1424
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:02,560
Speaker 1: to be a difference maker, guy who's you know, you

1425
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 1: want to get Joe Burrow yew. Well, now you gotta

1426
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 1: protect you Burrow. So I get it. But yeah, he's

1427
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 1: not he's not a guy that that makes you like

1428
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,680
Speaker 1: over here. Yeah, he makes you better on game day,

1429
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: but he doesn't make you you know, wow, you're really

1430
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:20,800
Speaker 1: good now, whereas you know, you get a guy like Burrow,

1431
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: it made them a much better football team, right, they

1432
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: were harder to play against. Does a left does a

1433
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 1: left tackle make you a much better football team? I

1434
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: don't know. The bricks and mortar of the house, right,

1435
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 1: you have to build that foundation, you need it. But yeah, man,

1436
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:34,800
Speaker 1: if you could get that in the you know, first

1437
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,759
Speaker 1: pick of the third pick of the second round. Okay,

1438
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:38,680
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden they have a running game.

1439
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: Now well then starts falling, right, that's the thing. Ye

1440
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: eight yard runs behind Sell, you know, like, okay, now

1441
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 1: we remember that. But man, when I'm picking in the

1442
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: top ten, I like the you know, the team that

1443
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: took you know, when when Eric Fisher was the number

1444
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,680
Speaker 1: one pick in the draft, it's like, you know, is

1445
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:58,760
Speaker 1: that really what you want to do with the Yeah,

1446
01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 1: in a bad, bad draft? Yeah, Historically those guys rarely

1447
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 1: bust though and offends and Walter Jones and those type

1448
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: of dudes usually do well. Yeah, you know, because they're freaks.

1449
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 1: But it's just a hard cell to your fan base, like, well,

1450
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 1: he let's get excited. We gotta tackle I've covered plenty

1451
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,679
Speaker 1: of those kind of like plenty of draft Steelers drafts

1452
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:22,720
Speaker 1: and if they may do it this year where the

1453
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 1: first pick is is an offensive lineman and the second

1454
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,640
Speaker 1: pick is a defensive lineman, and people are going and

1455
01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 1: neither one is projected to start right off the right,

1456
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:33,080
Speaker 1: right right. You know, it's like gonna get excited about

1457
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 1: this and you end up writing about the the sixth

1458
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:38,599
Speaker 1: round quarterback that they took. You know, that's the one everybody.

1459
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: That's the guy everybody's excited about, you know, and even

1460
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: like when you had a preseason, Okay, they watched him

1461
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 1: and they don't know what they're watching, right, Yeah, Like

1462
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,880
Speaker 1: he's playing second team and he's getting run over, you

1463
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 1: know because the guys beside him stink too, And it's

1464
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 1: not like he's gonna his highlight tape is not gonna

1465
01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 1: be fun, right, I hear you. Yeah, it's tough in

1466
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: the Steelers future too. It's tough. He is. Matt Williamson.

1467
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lali. You're listening to the drive here on

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01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: Steelers Nation Radio. Speaking of that Steelers offense. We're gonna

1469
01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 1: hear from Randy Fiekner in the next segment he spoke

1470
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: with the media earlier today. We'll play that back for

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01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 1: you right after this your tunes about drive on Home

1472
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Most hated

1473
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:45,360
Speaker 1: man in Pittsburgh right now, as usual is the Steelers

1474
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:48,679
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. They say, of course, Randy Fikner. We spoke

1475
01:19:48,720 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 1: to him earlier today. Lots of questions to Randy in

1476
01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:54,920
Speaker 1: regards to what's going on with the Steelers offense. I

1477
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 1: found it over the years, being the Steelers offensive coordinator

1478
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 1: doesn't really endear you to the the public. Well they've

1479
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:06,719
Speaker 1: all played Madden and everything works on right. So but anyways,

1480
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 1: here's what here's what Randy Fiker had to say when

1481
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: he spoke with the media earlier today. Um, first up,

1482
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: let's go to Microsun d V. Hey, Randy, uh, A

1483
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 1: lot of people that talk about football for a living

1484
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:25,000
Speaker 1: or saying that the defenses have your short passing game

1485
01:20:25,120 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 1: figured out? Is that the problem? Or are you guys,

1486
01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, leaving plays on the field last two

1487
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: three weeks. Well, I think you've probably answered it yourself.

1488
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't. If you're gonna throw the football,

1489
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,479
Speaker 1: you've got to catch the football. And that goes hand

1490
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 1: in hand. So, Uh, you know, if we talked about

1491
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: running the ball, and efficient runs are four plus U.

1492
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,280
Speaker 1: If we're gonna throw short and have the opportunity to

1493
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:53,640
Speaker 1: run along the short aspect of that has to be

1494
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:57,600
Speaker 1: caught for four and whatever we get after that is

1495
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:02,479
Speaker 1: is bonus. Um, that's just kind of keeping you on schedule. Um,

1496
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't say that it's uh that you've

1497
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: caught onto it. It's just a matter of, you know,

1498
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:15,320
Speaker 1: we got to make our place Randy. Um, according to

1499
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 1: what Mike said during his press conferences, confident in the

1500
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: offensive lines, ability to hold up longer if you guys

1501
01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 1: have more intermediate deep passing routes. And Ben certainly sounded

1502
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:29,360
Speaker 1: yesterday like he wasn't worried about his health. So with

1503
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: those two factors being known, why don't you try more

1504
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,640
Speaker 1: intermediate to deep shots? And um, why haven't you been

1505
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:39,799
Speaker 1: more effective when you've tried them? Well, maybe just because

1506
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:44,400
Speaker 1: there hasn't been as many allocated to it practice time. Uh.

1507
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 1: You know, I think whatever you missed in uh, in

1508
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 1: that little three week time of walk through playing not

1509
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: playing games being moved, I think back to just repetition

1510
01:21:56,479 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 1: of throwing and catching for our guys. Um, that's not

1511
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: an excuse. But if there would have been one area

1512
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,720
Speaker 1: you would have backed off of, that would have been

1513
01:22:05,760 --> 01:22:09,200
Speaker 1: potentially throwing the ball down down deep balls. I mean,

1514
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:10,880
Speaker 1: you know, whether you're talking about big hands or you're

1515
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 1: talking about a post, or you're talking about goes. So, UM,

1516
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: you know, having this week where we actually get to

1517
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:21,439
Speaker 1: back to a semblance of a real week. UM. You

1518
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: know we worked on that yesterday, will continue today, we

1519
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: get a couple more good days of practice, and so

1520
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 1: it will be an area of emphasis. Randy. Uh, some

1521
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: of it is where Ben's throwing the football. UM, in

1522
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,920
Speaker 1: terms of the deep balls, Like he's five or forty

1523
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: three throwing downfield to his right, but he's fourteen and

1524
01:22:44,479 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 1: twenty six to his left. Is that something that that

1525
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: you look at and say, okay, what can we do

1526
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:52,639
Speaker 1: to kind of if he's struggling throwing a certain pass,

1527
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 1: can you adjust your offense to make sure that he's

1528
01:22:56,800 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 1: throwing the ball where he's been better throwing the football? Yeah?

1529
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:04,800
Speaker 1: You can to a point. Uh. Sometimes defensive dictate you know,

1530
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: by by how they rotate coverage, by how maybe they

1531
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:11,560
Speaker 1: rotate a safety. UM. So it can't always be determined.

1532
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 1: You can't control it. UM. I would say that part

1533
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:18,720
Speaker 1: of that equation would be to who you might be

1534
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 1: throwing it too, might be involved in that equation as well. Um,

1535
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: some guy guys do a little better job but maybe

1536
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 1: holding a little more space and or red line, um,

1537
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:31,160
Speaker 1: so that the ball can be dropped in bounds and

1538
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: have a chance for a play. UM, I would I

1539
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 1: would say that he's more than capable of throwing the

1540
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: ball down the yard and making plays. We have enough

1541
01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:43,280
Speaker 1: guys that can actually go up and make a play.

1542
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 1: I think we probably have done it less than most. Um.

1543
01:23:47,520 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 1: Just those numbers alone might might say that, um, and

1544
01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:54,920
Speaker 1: that might be an emphasis for us moving forward. So UM,

1545
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to throw it deep. I think a

1546
01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:00,840
Speaker 1: couple of weeks back, we started we started the game

1547
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I think it was Washington, and

1548
01:24:04,640 --> 01:24:06,720
Speaker 1: we went and we're gonna attempt to throw the ball

1549
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 1: down the yard. So UM, it can be as early

1550
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: as the first play, and definitely can be the last play.

1551
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 1: But uh, it's something that we've got to keep working

1552
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:19,759
Speaker 1: and getting better at. Because they create chunks and chunks

1553
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: what you need to kind of sustain drives. You know,

1554
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: it's it's awful hard to put together a drive like

1555
01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:27,720
Speaker 1: what happened in Tennessee. You know, we think we had

1556
01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:30,599
Speaker 1: an eight team plays, we had to overcome two penalties,

1557
01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 1: just awful lot of place to try and keep getting

1558
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 1: the first down and then half they get a third

1559
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:36,680
Speaker 1: down and then have to get another third down, and

1560
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: you know, the chunk plays eliminate a lot of that,

1561
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 1: And that's where I think we may be missing right now.

1562
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 1: And you're not going to create a chunk play if

1563
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:49,640
Speaker 1: you're throwing short and dropping a potential run along. So

1564
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: you know, I look at some of the short balls

1565
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:56,360
Speaker 1: that we throw, quote unquote thinking dunk type balls. A

1566
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 1: lot of those balls come out running and they become

1567
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:03,360
Speaker 1: chunk plays. And if we're not making those plays consistently,

1568
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:06,439
Speaker 1: then you're taking away another opportunity for a chunk for

1569
01:25:06,640 --> 01:25:11,599
Speaker 1: prior espn he Mandy. I'm curious. I know Ben likes

1570
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: to be in the spotlight and and maybe not that spartly,

1571
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:17,320
Speaker 1: but doesn't mind the pressure and shouldering the load offensively.

1572
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,360
Speaker 1: But is it possible that this offense has been relying

1573
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: too much on Ben when you know the run game

1574
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:25,720
Speaker 1: has kind of disappeared and and all of that. I mean,

1575
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 1: is is too much of this on Ben at this

1576
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:32,000
Speaker 1: point in the season. Do you guys need to diversify

1577
01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: the offense more? Well, I think you always want to be,

1578
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: you know, as diverse as possible. Um. You know, I

1579
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:42,439
Speaker 1: would shy away from wanting to probably take too much

1580
01:25:42,479 --> 01:25:45,680
Speaker 1: out of Ben's hands, piece of most experienced and and

1581
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: and quite honestly our best football player. Um, he has

1582
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 1: a lot of insight into all levels of the game.

1583
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 1: I think we've got to do make a little better

1584
01:25:56,600 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 1: job of being more consistent and efficient our runs. Um.

1585
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 1: You know, we've looked at certain play actions and some

1586
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 1: things to uh potentially create maybe more chunks down the

1587
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:12,519
Speaker 1: field as well. So, Um, he hasn't been resistant to anything.

1588
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:16,640
Speaker 1: He's been unbelievably wants to be coached. He comes in

1589
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 1: with ideas, he studies overnight, he hits me with Texas

1590
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:23,920
Speaker 1: and you know a bunch of different things that that

1591
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: he'd like to do, think about doing, and that type

1592
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:29,040
Speaker 1: of thing. I'm just I'm kind of excited about just

1593
01:26:29,120 --> 01:26:32,599
Speaker 1: being on a real week schedule because there is maybe

1594
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: some floats to be able to do that. Um. The

1595
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: rush of some of the past weeks. You better get

1596
01:26:38,160 --> 01:26:40,959
Speaker 1: committed to doing the things that you feel most comfortable

1597
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,240
Speaker 1: to do because you really didn't get the practice reps

1598
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: versus uh, maybe the looks that you're anticipating for that week. So,

1599
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: like I said, we can do everything a little bit better, me, him,

1600
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:56,840
Speaker 1: our staff, players, everyone can do something better and and

1601
01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 1: we know how to do it right. We've done it right. Um,

1602
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 1: if you call it a low maybe it maybe it was,

1603
01:27:02,439 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 1: and maybe it is at this point, but shoot, we

1604
01:27:05,240 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 1: can get out of that too, Randy. What would account

1605
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: for a quarterback being inaccurate to the right as opposed

1606
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 1: to the left. It seems like a lot of bends

1607
01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:18,439
Speaker 1: balls are actually going out of bounce to the right,

1608
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: and as Dale mentioned, you know not so much when

1609
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 1: he throws left. Well maybe you know, just you look

1610
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:27,640
Speaker 1: at feet and just see if you're not you know,

1611
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:32,760
Speaker 1: opened up enough possibly, um, you know, shoulder turn and

1612
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:37,560
Speaker 1: things like that. Sometimes even protection, Um, you know, what

1613
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: is the feel of the protection and at what time

1614
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 1: as you know you're having to throw it. Sometimes, Um,

1615
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 1: it's if you're if you're feeling that pressure and maybe

1616
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 1: it's a little softer on your right side. You may

1617
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:53,840
Speaker 1: have hesitancy to maybe slide away from it. Now you're

1618
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 1: sliding away to the side you're throwing the ball, so

1619
01:27:56,160 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 1: the firmness might not be as great or even potentially

1620
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 1: the idea that uh, you might have short on um.

1621
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: You know. So I think some of that all goes

1622
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:10,120
Speaker 1: into the equation as well. Um, I said, I think

1623
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:12,679
Speaker 1: a lot would have to do. And and we talked

1624
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 1: about this about maybe who's running certain patterns on weach side,

1625
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, Um, some guys get clean release of some

1626
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: guys um maybe never top a defender and so that

1627
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,720
Speaker 1: opportunity for a jump ball is there, and so that

1628
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:33,639
Speaker 1: ball placement is so much more critical. Um, But it isn't.

1629
01:28:34,160 --> 01:28:37,040
Speaker 1: It's it's you can practice it. We go out and

1630
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:39,720
Speaker 1: today we're gonna we'll throw depots today and we'll do

1631
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: an individual and there won't be a defender on them, okay,

1632
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:45,479
Speaker 1: and we won't tangle anyone's legs up to be falling

1633
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:50,120
Speaker 1: falling down thirty yards downfield. But uh, it does give

1634
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:53,720
Speaker 1: you that sense of timing and rhythm again and potentially

1635
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:57,080
Speaker 1: just the idea of seeing the throwing kids and the

1636
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: adjustment by a receiver. So we've we've we've we know

1637
01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 1: we've got to get back to that. We know that

1638
01:29:02,840 --> 01:29:05,600
Speaker 1: in anyone given years since I've been here. UM, the

1639
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:08,200
Speaker 1: opportunity to throw the ball past the sticks and in

1640
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: possession downs as critical to us. UM, you know, and

1641
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 1: being able to take shots on the first and second

1642
01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 1: down have to be completed, UM at a at a

1643
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:23,599
Speaker 1: greater rate. At bu chef the athletic, Hey, Randy, everybody

1644
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:27,800
Speaker 1: has noted how quickly Ben's been getting the ball off

1645
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:31,679
Speaker 1: faster than anybody in the league. Did you go into

1646
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:35,040
Speaker 1: this year with the plan to do that? And why

1647
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 1: was it to protect him keep him from getting sacked? Well?

1648
01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:40,720
Speaker 1: What was the reason? Well, I think a lot of

1649
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,839
Speaker 1: things go into that play. I think one a speeches,

1650
01:29:44,280 --> 01:29:47,840
Speaker 1: decision making up and he gets committed. I think too. UM.

1651
01:29:48,240 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 1: We believe in in our young wide receivers that have

1652
01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 1: potential run after catchability. Like I said, I don't always

1653
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:57,800
Speaker 1: think you have to throw it over their heads thirty yards.

1654
01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:00,600
Speaker 1: If you can throw it five yards and into the

1655
01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:03,720
Speaker 1: right type of guy that can either make a guy

1656
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: miss and or break a tackle, next thing, you know,

1657
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,560
Speaker 1: there's that thirty yards. UM. I do think it is

1658
01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:14,560
Speaker 1: a collective great opportunity to eliminate lost yardage plays. I

1659
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:18,599
Speaker 1: think you eliminate some holding calls. I think you eliminate, um,

1660
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:21,800
Speaker 1: you know, things that sometimes set your drives back. It's

1661
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 1: awful hard to overcome that sack of eight. Um, it's

1662
01:30:25,960 --> 01:30:29,400
Speaker 1: hard to overcome that holding call because maybe you held

1663
01:30:29,439 --> 01:30:32,519
Speaker 1: the ball and you try to scramble around and make

1664
01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:35,639
Speaker 1: some plays like we've all seen Ben do forever and ever.

1665
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:38,320
Speaker 1: Um he made one again the other day. I mean

1666
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 1: he's capable of all still doing that, Um. But I

1667
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:45,760
Speaker 1: think in general, Um, he's making quick decisions. He sees

1668
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:47,599
Speaker 1: where it wants to get the ball out of his hand.

1669
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: And I guess that we've been very very good at

1670
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:55,839
Speaker 1: protecting Bid. He's been good at protecting himself. What's what's

1671
01:30:56,280 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 1: missing right now is just maybe a little more consid

1672
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 1: instantly catching the football. And if you do that, by all, um,

1673
01:31:05,080 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: we probably aren't having these discussions. So we know where,

1674
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:11,040
Speaker 1: we know where where we have to improve and where

1675
01:31:11,120 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 1: we have to eliminate the negativity. And that's what we're

1676
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: attempting to do this week. Brandy. I think before your

1677
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 1: first game as coordinator, I said, I hope you like

1678
01:31:20,880 --> 01:31:22,800
Speaker 1: being the most second guest guy in the city, and

1679
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:24,800
Speaker 1: you laughed, and I said, you said, I guess we'll see.

1680
01:31:25,280 --> 01:31:27,800
Speaker 1: I'm just sort of curious, how do you handle the

1681
01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:31,040
Speaker 1: noise when things aren't going well? And have you changed

1682
01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:34,640
Speaker 1: your are you preparation you know, especially the last few

1683
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:37,160
Speaker 1: weeks in terms of trying to look for different ways

1684
01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:40,720
Speaker 1: to find answers. Well, we're always looking to find answers. Um,

1685
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 1: I don't always hear the noise because I'm not sure

1686
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:44,559
Speaker 1: where it's all come from, and that type of thing,

1687
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:47,640
Speaker 1: And truth is, I would hope I wouldn't ride a

1688
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:50,680
Speaker 1: roller coaster of it. Um. You know, I'd be the

1689
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:52,680
Speaker 1: first to say that. One. I want to win every game,

1690
01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:55,960
Speaker 1: and up until two weeks ago, we were and and

1691
01:31:56,720 --> 01:32:00,040
Speaker 1: that's been the number one goal for for me and

1692
01:32:00,920 --> 01:32:05,240
Speaker 1: in working here. Um, I do think that, you know,

1693
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 1: we'd love to be more balanced. We'd love to be

1694
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:11,439
Speaker 1: able to to like I generally would say, run it

1695
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:13,800
Speaker 1: when we want to run it, throw when we want

1696
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:16,880
Speaker 1: to throw it, and execute in the possession downs and

1697
01:32:16,960 --> 01:32:20,120
Speaker 1: red zones and and and be consistent. You know, I

1698
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 1: think what gets disappointing is, you know, two weeks ago,

1699
01:32:23,560 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 1: we weren't consistent in the red zone. Last week, we

1700
01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:27,680
Speaker 1: were consistent in the red zone, just weren't down there enough.

1701
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:30,120
Speaker 1: You know, three weeks ago we were really great on

1702
01:32:30,240 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 1: third down, and then last week we weren't going on

1703
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 1: third down. And so maybe just trying to find that

1704
01:32:37,120 --> 01:32:40,559
Speaker 1: consistency all the way through. UM. You know, we don't

1705
01:32:40,600 --> 01:32:42,679
Speaker 1: probably have to be the best at any one of those,

1706
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,760
Speaker 1: but we can't be the worst once and then the

1707
01:32:46,880 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 1: best the next day. I believe that consistency has kind

1708
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:53,400
Speaker 1: of can start coming through UM. And like I said,

1709
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 1: I would bet if we went back even early in

1710
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 1: the season, it wasn't It wasn't always like that either. Uh,

1711
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:03,000
Speaker 1: just consistent in every facet of the game. But it

1712
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:06,040
Speaker 1: but it felt like you were more medium than you were,

1713
01:33:06,680 --> 01:33:10,439
Speaker 1: um hot and cold. All right, I only have time

1714
01:33:10,479 --> 01:33:12,120
Speaker 1: for one more guy, So I'm sorry if I didn't

1715
01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:16,680
Speaker 1: get you. Market Volli the athletic. Hey, Randy, when you

1716
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 1: decide to uh sit down Deonte like you did in

1717
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 1: the first half, is there and he thought of you

1718
01:33:23,600 --> 01:33:27,280
Speaker 1: might lose him as and you know, lose him mentally

1719
01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:29,920
Speaker 1: for maybe more than just the game, maybe lose him

1720
01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 1: for you know, a couple of weeks because it's tough

1721
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:36,560
Speaker 1: to handle taking a benching like that. Well, you know,

1722
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 1: Deante is um. He wants to win, and he wants

1723
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:42,320
Speaker 1: to he wants to do things right. Um. Uh. He

1724
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:47,080
Speaker 1: was very professional about it. I knew that anyone given time,

1725
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 1: we probably could have walked over after a series and says,

1726
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:50,960
Speaker 1: hey man, let's go, let's get back in here, let's go.

1727
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:53,360
Speaker 1: I've paided him on the asked before we went in,

1728
01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 1: UM to the josh, I should say like that, but

1729
01:33:56,600 --> 01:33:58,680
Speaker 1: I but on the way in, I said, hey man,

1730
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:01,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay and get yourself ready because you

1731
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:05,599
Speaker 1: will start a second half of let's go. Um. He's

1732
01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:09,400
Speaker 1: more than capable. He is an awesome uh guy with

1733
01:34:09,520 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 1: football in his hand. And UH, I just think that

1734
01:34:12,439 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: you know, from whether concentration, whether it's uh uh you know,

1735
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:23,800
Speaker 1: maybe young guys not practicing uh leads to some of this. UM.

1736
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:25,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know one thing. He had

1737
01:34:25,840 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 1: a hell of a practice yesterday and I couldn't been

1738
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 1: more proud of him and um and I think as

1739
01:34:31,560 --> 01:34:35,680
Speaker 1: you move forward, I think that you'll see um a

1740
01:34:35,840 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: really consistent uh A. Right. That was Steeler's offensive coordinator

1741
01:34:42,160 --> 01:34:46,439
Speaker 1: Randy Feekner earlier today with the assembled media, including myself,

1742
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 1: and I did ask him about some of those numbers

1743
01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:51,679
Speaker 1: that we talked about on Wednesday and Tuesday and Wednesday

1744
01:34:51,680 --> 01:34:55,800
Speaker 1: actually on the deep balls, and you heard his answer there. Um,

1745
01:34:55,920 --> 01:34:57,800
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, something they need to hit some of those.

1746
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:01,080
Speaker 1: But the defense knows that too, right. I mean, there's

1747
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:04,040
Speaker 1: no secrets, and there's a lot of people on the

1748
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 1: opposing coaching staff breaking you down and they know what

1749
01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:08,600
Speaker 1: you do well. And I do know that, you know

1750
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 1: and we all know. You know at sometimes you confuse people.

1751
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: But you gotta execute him. You got to execute. That's

1752
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. And he kept coming back

1753
01:35:16,160 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 1: to the drop passes. Um, you know, if you're if

1754
01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:22,320
Speaker 1: you're going to be a short passing team, Um, you

1755
01:35:22,439 --> 01:35:24,760
Speaker 1: have to complete eight of those. You can't you know,

1756
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:27,640
Speaker 1: can't be six. I mean the Bradies and Breezes of

1757
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:29,719
Speaker 1: the world. And that's not knock on bend. It's because

1758
01:35:30,360 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 1: the high completion percentage guys, right, that's why those guys

1759
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:36,559
Speaker 1: complete their passes. And then they'll and then they'll take

1760
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:40,920
Speaker 1: some shots that the average depth targets, so that adds up. Anyways,

1761
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:42,840
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for today's show. We'll be back

1762
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:45,960
Speaker 1: tomorrow to uh wrap up the week here and get

1763
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:49,800
Speaker 1: them more on intense on this game, make our picks

1764
01:35:49,840 --> 01:35:53,200
Speaker 1: and do all that fun stuff. But for Matt Williamson

1765
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:55,479
Speaker 1: for a Jacob here on site keeping us on the air.

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01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lelly. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Drive on Stealer Nation Radio.